About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Thursday, July 12, 2007

July 12......

July 12 is the 193rd (194th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 172 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Privacy "Privacy is granted to you by others, by their decency, by their understanding, by their compassionate behavior, by the laws of the land." — Alida Brill

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Neo-Fascism "I want to be invisible. I do guerrilla warfare. I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag. You don't know until election night." — Ralph Reed, former executive director of the Christian Coalition

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "I think we can agree. The past is over." — Hall of Shame Member #1, George W. Bush

Thought for the day: "The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion."

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

● 1096 - Crusaders under Peter the Hermit reached Sofia, Bulgaria. There they met their Byzantine escort, which brought them safely the rest of the way to Constantinople by August 1.

● 1191 - Saladin's garrison surrenders, ending the two-year siege of Acre. Conrad of Montferrat, who has negotiated the surrender, raises the banners of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and of the Third Crusade leaders Richard ("The Lionhearted") I of England, Philip II of France, and Leopold V of Austria on the city's walls and towers.

● 1290 - Jews are expelled from England by order of King Edward I

● 1450 - Jack Cade, leader of rebellion of workers, executed and his head left on London Bridge.

● 1543 - King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr at Hampton Court Palace.

● 1917 - In order to break up a copper mine strike, several thousand vigilantes round up 1,186 IWW members in Bisbee, Arizona; they are "deported" into the Sonoran desert. Patriotism and support for the war effort were cited as reasons for the action.

● 1951 - Adlai Stevenson calls National Guard to stop rioting in Cicero, Illinois. Mob of 3,500 tries to keep an African-American family from moving into the city. {This courageous stance by Stevenson more than likely doomed any chance he had in his two runs for the presidency against Eisenhower. Later he would be remembered for saying, "I can wait till Hell freezes over." at UN during the Cuban missile crisis.}

● 1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed a highway modernization program, with costs to be shared by federal and state governments.

● 1957 - 1st President to fly in helicopter-Dwight Eisenhower

● 1957 - The U.S. surgeon general, Leroy E. Burney, reported that there was a direct link between smoking and lung cancer.

● 1960 - Congo, Chad & Central African Republic declare independence

● 1960 - Echo I, 1st passive satellite launched

● 1960 - Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.

● 1960 - USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs

● 1962 - 1st time 2 manned crafts in space (USSR)

● 1963 - Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth wrote in a letter: 'Do not stop testing and correcting your insights by holy scripture. Then, being sound in what really counts, you can live and represent a comforted life.'

● 1980 - Cree of northern Quebec file suit claiming Canadian and Quebec governments failed to honor James Bay and North Quebec Agreement. The James Bay I hydroelectric project, built in the 1970s, flooded tens of thousands of square miles of Cree and Inuit lands.

● 1982 - FEMA promises survivors of a nuclear war will get their mail. {Quite reassuring that one since survivors of flood and storm aren't afforded the same promise.}

● 1982 - The last of the distinctive-looking Checker taxicabs rolled off the assembly line in Kalamazoo, MI.

● 1984 - Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale named U.S. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York to be his running mate. Ferraro was the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket.

● 2005 - Prince Albert II is enthroned as ruler of the Principality of Monaco.

● 2005 - Mohammed Bouyeri, a Muslim extremist on trial in the slaying of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, unexpectedly confessed in court, saying he was driven by religious conviction. (Bouyeri was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.)

● 2005 - Lord John King, Baron King of Wartnaby, Chief executive of British Airways since its privitisation. (b. 1917)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:● St. Agnes De● St. Amator, bishop of Auxerre, confessor● St. Ansbald● St. Cletus, pope, martyr● St. Epiphania● Sts. Hermagoras and Fortunatus, martyrs● St. Jason● St. John Gualbert, abbot, confessor● St. John Jones● St. John the Iberian● St. Leo of Lucca● St. Liethard● St. Marcellinus, pope, martyr● St. Marciana● St. Margaret, virgin, martyr● St. Menulf, bishop, confessor● St. Nabor and Felix, martyrs● St. Paternian● St. Paulinus of Antioch● Sts. Peter and Paul, Foremost of Apostles● St. Peter Khanh● St. Prejectus, bishop, martyr● St. Sixtus● St. Veronica● St. Viventiolus, bishop of Lyon, confessor● Bl. Andrew Oexner of Riun● Bl. David Gonson● Bl. John Naisen● Bl. John Tanaka● Bl. Louis Naisen● Bl. Matthias Araki● Bl. Monica Naisen● Bl. Peter Araki Kobjoje

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 30 (Civil Date: July 12)● Synaxis of the Holy, Glorious and All-Praised Twelve Apostles: Peter, Andrew, James and John the sons of Zebedee, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Jude the brother of James, Simon Zelotes, and Matthias● St. Sophronius, Bishop of Irkutsk.● New-Martyr Michael of Athens.● St. Andrew, prince of Bogoliubsk.

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